Link.

Debate on whether to allow the use of student IDs and library cards.  More here.

Florida has joined a 22-state alliance that cross-checks voter
registrations, with the aim of catching scofflaws who vote in two states
during the same election.   Link to the full story.

Robert McCartney at the Washington Post was hoping his conspiracy theories would be validated by a report on Fairfax County elections produced by a team of Democrats and Republicans.  It didn’t happen.

“But the commission didn’t look much into the most intriguing disputes over the election. It said it was hampered by a controversial lawsuit that the Fairfax Democratic Committee has brought against the elections office and others. The office said it wasn’t free to talk to the commission in depth until the lawsuit was resolved.

Some Fairfax Democrats said the elections overseers were using the lawsuit as an excuse to avoid answering tough questions. Others, however, including Bulova, faulted fellow Democrats for insisting on pushing the lawsuit forward.”

A former aide of U.S. Rep. David Rivera and a printing company have both
become witnesses in the federal investigation of the Republican
politician’s ties to an illegally funded congressional campaign, The
Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald have learned.

Takoma Park is exploring an ordinance reducing the age of voting to 16 for citizens and presumably non-citizens.  You know what that means….it is right around the corner.  Takoma Park is also one of a number of municipalities in Montgomery County, Maryland that allow non-citizens in vote in their elections.  Not surprising, some of the biggest opponents are the parents of teenagers. 

Colleen Clay, a former Takoma Park councilmember, said that while
she’s not “inconvincible,” she has not heard much discussion on the
issue and it needs to be debated more before the council takes a vote.  Being a mother of two teenagers, Clay said she can attest to the fact
that while her children are engaged with certain issues, they have a
lot of other interests that are of higher priority.

“Would [my children] be able to understand the issues in the same
way? They really don’t think so. They are so focused on the crew team,
the sailing team…They are focused on being teenagers,” said Clay.

Milwaukee County prosecutors Thursday filed voter fraud charges against
10 people, including two accused of double voting in 2012 elections and
two felons ineligible to vote.   Link.

….the measure would prevent the next phase of current law from taking effect in
September 2013, when election officials would be required to photograph
voters without identification before handing them a ballot and when
acceptable identification would be limited to driver’s licenses,
state-issued identification cards, passports, and military IDs.   More at newstimes.com. 

It is unclear what the New Hampshire Senate will do, if anything, to the existing voter ID law as it tabled a similar bill earlier in the year.

The Kentucky legislature has ground to a halt trying to determine how and whether to allow the email return of ballots and the politicians are not optimistic about the standoff.

(Republican state senator Ryan) Quarles said he is hopeful, but not tremendously optimistic about a deal being reached.  “It’s uncertain. Anything is possible in the last days” of the session, he said. The chambers are at odds over whether or not service personnel can return ballots electronically or must still mail in hard copies. The Senate struck the provision for electronic voting from its bill due to concerns over cyber security.

Are the differences insurmountable?  The debate is weighing the security of the ballot and electoral process and whether some get to vote at all due to their circumstances.

Breitbart link:

“President Obama has nominated Thomas E. Perez for Secretary of Labor. Perez is a radical progressive who is currently the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in President Obama’s Justice Department. Perez has amassed a record demonstrating contempt for the rule of law, hostility toward the private sector and an aversion to telling the truth under oath. . . .

Perez waged war against voter photo identification laws. In South Carolina, he overruled career Voting Section lawyers who recommended that South Carolina Voter ID be “precleared” under the Voting Rights Act. Instead, Perez wanted to fight to stoke up President Obama’s base before the 2012 election and ordered that the law be blocked (a federal power currently challenged in the Supreme Court case of Shelby v. Holder). South Carolina eventually beat Perez in federal court, but not before the taxpayers of South Carolina were forced to spend $3,500,000 in legal fees.